Vanity-clasp.



F. M. SWARTZ.

VANITY CLASP. Armcmou FILED Nov. 19, 1914.

' Patented July 6, 1915.

FRED M. SWARTZ, F PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

VANITY-CLASP.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 119115.

Application filed November 19, 1914. Serial No. 872,949.

To all whom it may concern v Be it known that I, FRED M. SwAR'rz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vanity-Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in vanity clasps, and the primary object of the invention is to provide a clasp which is of simple and economical construction and which involves a minimum of parts and material with consequent ease in assemblage.

Further the invention aims to provide a novel and improved mounting for the spring whereby the latter acts to press upon the material or the garment to thereby hold the clasp against accidental movement relative to the material or garment.

Other and further objects of the invention will be later set forth and manifested in the course of the following specification.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a side edge elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. ,1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33- of Fig. 1. Fig. 4is a view similar to Fig. 1 of a slightly moditied form of the invention. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4:, and Fig. 6 is a section on the line 66 of Fig. 4.

The invention consists of a one piece jaw member which is bent to form a pair of jaws 1 and 2, the jaw 1 having its free end curled inwardly at 3 to engage with the curved or hook end 4: of the movable jaw 2, whereby the two jaws are held locked in operative position. The tensioning means for the jaws consists of a flat spring of the leaf type which has a body of longitudinal concave-convex formation, and has one of its endscurled outwardly at 5 and soldered at 6 to the two. jaws at the points where the latter are connected or are in common. The opposite end of the spring is turned outwardly at 7 and is engaged beneath the free end of the curled end 3 of jaw 1, and projects within the eye 8 which said curled portion 3 forms. The spring 10 is compressibleby the garment or material which engages between said spring and the jaw 2, the free end 7 of the spring 10 having sliding movement within the eye 8 to allow compression thereof.

In the modified form of the invention shown in Figs. 4 to 6, the structure is the same as that described in connection with Figs. 1 and 3, with the exception that the curved end .7 of the spring has opposite reduced portions or slots 11 which form a T- shaped head with a neck 12, which neck is received within a cut-out part 13 formed in the curled end 3, which structure is to positively hold the spring 10 against lateral movement at its slidable or free end.

The entire structure is very simple and consists of but two parts, and in addition, the spring is housed by the jaws and its free end is fully protected by the curled end 3, which latter prevents the garment from catching on the free end of the spring. The curled end performs a dual function in that it acts as a snap over which the hook 4 engages, and also acts as a housing for the free end of the spring.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent;

1. In a clasp, a one piece jaw member bent to form a pair of jaws, a spring having one end curled and secured at the bent end of the member and between the jaws, the free end of one jaw being curled inwardly to form an open eye and the free end of the other jaw being curved to engage over said last named curled portion, the free end of the spring being slidably received within said eye and sliding on the jaw and beneath the curled end of the latter.

2. Tn a clasp, a pair of jaws one of which has an inwardly extending free end, and a spring having connection at one end with said jaw and having its opposite end free and sliding beneath and housed by said inwardly extending free end.

3. In a clasp, a pair of jaws one of which has a curled over free end, the other jaw having its free end curved to engage over said curled end, and a spring having con nection at one end with the first named jaw and having its free end slidable beneath and within said curled end.

4. In a clasp, a pair of jaws in connection with one another one of which has an inturned end. a spring having connection at one end with the first named jaw and having a free end which is housed by said inturned end, and means whereby lateral movement of the free end of the spring isrestricted.

5. Tn a clasp, a rigid jaw having each of its ends curved outwardly, a movable jaw having one end forming a continuation of one curved end of the rigid jaw and its opposite end curved to engage over the other curved end of the rigid jaw, and a bowed spring having each of its ends curved outwardly and having one of said ends in connection with one curved end of the rigid jaw and its other curved end slidably engaged within the other curved end of the 10 rigid jaw.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDM. SVVARTZ.

Witnesses:

ADA E. HAGERTY, J. A. MILLER. 

